@Friendica Support@Friendica Developers

Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?

And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:

What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendica is / should be"?

My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.

Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).

In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)

Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?

Cheers

Marek

Mainstream media journalist: It's too hard to build an audience on Mastodon! I cross-post the same shouty posts and one-sentence slogans as I do on the fowl app, and they just get no traction here! It must be because it's just too complicated for people to read posts from other instances or something!

Me: Okay, do you follow many interesting people here?

Journo: No.

Me: Do you reply to posts and engage with other people?

Journo: No.

Me: Do you like and share many other people's posts?

Journo: No.

Me: Do you post anything interesting, insightful or funny? Or just shouty denouncements?

Journo: Oh, I don't just cross-post shouty posts and slogans — I also do self-promotion! Subscribe now to read my latest article!

Me: Could the problem be that you've relied entirely on an algorithm that's fine-tuned to incite people by distributing the most provocative content widely to generate ad views? That the core issues are that you don't engage, contribute little to the online community, and share little content of real value and substance? That you're essentially no different to the social media bullies you so often denounce in your paywalled articles?

Journo: No. The problem isn't me, the problem is Mastodon!

#TwitterMigration #Twitter #Mastodon

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Im Nachgang zu meinem letzten Post.

Ich habe bemerkt, dass nicht nur Vom #bfdi eine #Mastodon #Instanz mit vielen #Regierungsorganisationen und #Forschungsinstituten betrieben wird - Seit kurzem gibt es auch eine Mastodon Instanz des #idw Informationsdienstes Wissenschaft, auf dem schon diverse #akademisch|e Einrichtungen, #Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen aktiv sind (Stand heute 53 Kanäle):

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Following my last post on this:
I noticed that many #academic and #research institutions are available on the #Mastodon instance of the German #idw (information service science): Currently 53 channels, mostly by German #universities, Institues of #HigherEducation and #Research institutes:

ausgewählte Kanäle / Selected channels:

#HTWBerlin: https://wisskomm.social/HTW_Berlin
#TUDresden: https://wisskomm.social/@tudresden
#UniOldenburg: https://wisskomm.social/@UniOldenburg
#unibremen: https://wisskom.social/@unibremen
#TUbraunschweig: https://wisskomm.social/@tubraunschweig
#UniKoeln: https://wisskomm.social/@UniKoeln
#Wissenschaftsrat (German Science and Humanities Council): https://wisskomm.social/@WissRat
#CHE (CHE Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung):

• various #MaxPlanck, #Fraunhofer, #Leibnitz and #Helmholtz institutes